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WMSCI is the acronym of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, a computer science and engineering conference that has occurred annually since 1995, although prior to 2005 it was called simply SCI. Since 1995, more than 10,000 papers of about have been presented on WMSCI and its collocated conferences. WMSCI's acceptance policy is far more liberal than that of most major computer science conferences, and it has been criticized by some academics who feel its quality threshold for acceptance is too low and its stated mission ("a forum for focusing into specific disciplinary research, as well as for multi, inter and trans-disciplinary studies and projects", according to the 2005 WMSCI website) too opaque.

WMSCI is organized by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

[edit] SCIgen paper acceptance

WMSCI attracted publicity of a less favorable sort in 2005 when three graduate students at MIT succeeded in getting a paper accepted as a "non-reviewed paper" to the conference that had been randomly generated by a computer program called SCIgen. Documents generated by this software have been used to submit papers to other similar conferences.